Social Thresholds and their Translation into Social-ecological Management Practices

Christensen, Lisa; Krogman, Naomi

doi:10.5751/es-04499-170105

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“…As others have found, it is typically difficult to identify tipping points (Christensen andKrogman 2012, Sinclair et al 2014), but our analysis of the available data suggests that somewhere in the decade between the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Ovens entered a period of transition largely as a result of the decline of agriculture. We suggest that this transition represents the end of the conservation phase (Fig.…”

Section: Resolving the Contradictory Interpretations Of Landscape Chamentioning

confidence: 82%

Reconciling contradictory narratives of landscape change using the adaptive cycle: a case study from southeastern Australia

Rawluk¹,

Curtis²

2016

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Section: Resolving the Contradictory Interpretations Of Landscape Chamentioning

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Reconciling contradictory narratives of landscape change using the adaptive cycle: a case study from southeastern Australia

Rawluk¹,

Curtis²

2016

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“…Much of the thresholds research in SES has focused on conceptualizing and locating thresholds in ecological systems where "crossing over" can result in significant changes in ecosystem structure, function, and feedbacks (Walker et al, 2004). A smaller but growing body of work has investigated social and institutional thresholds (Armitage et al, 2012;Nayak et al, 2015;Blythe, 2014;Christensen and Krogman, 2012). These authors conceptualize thresholds as points of change in social-ecological system identity (Blythe, 2014;Cumming et al, 2005) or points at which there is a loss of capacity to learn and adapt (Renaud et al, 2010).…”

Section: Shocks and Social Thresholdsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Catching sea cucumber fever in coastal communities: Conceptualizing the impacts of shocks versus trends on social-ecological systems

Kaplan-Hallam¹,

Bennett²,

Satterfield³

2018

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Research on vulnerability and adaptation in social-ecological systems (SES) has largely centered on climate change and associated biophysical stressors. Key implications of this are twofold. First, there has been limited engagement with the impacts of social drivers of change on communities and linked SES. Second, the focus on climate effects often assumes slower drivers of change and fails to differentiate the implications of change occurring at different timescales. This has resulted in a body of SES scholarship that is under-theorized in terms of how communities experience and respond to fast versus slow change. Yet, social and economic processes at global scales increasingly emerge as 'shocks' for local systems, driving rapid and often surprising forms of change distinct from and yet interacting with the impacts of slow, ongoing 'trends'. This research seeks to understand the nature and impacts of social shocks as opposed to or in concert with trends through the lens of a qualitative case study of a coastal community in Mexico, where demand from international seafood markets has spurred rapid development of a sea cucumber fishery. Specifically, we examined what different socialecological changes are being experienced by the community, how the impacts of the sea cucumber fishery are distinct from and interacting with slower ongoing trends and how these processes are affecting system vulnerability, adaptations and adaptive capacity. We begin by proposing a novel framework for conceptualizing impacts on social systems, as comprised of structures, functions, and feedbacks. Our results illustrate how the rapid-onset of this fishery has ecological changes are being experienced by the community, how the impacts of the sea cucumber fishery are distinct from and interacting with slower ongoing trends and in poaching and armed violence have emerged, exacerbating pressures from ongoing trends in immigration, overfishing and tourism development. We argue that there is a need to better understand and differentiate the social and ecological implications of shocks, which present novel challenges for the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of communities and the sustainability of marine ecosystems.

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“…The empirical approach to thresholds in the Spyce et al (2012) paper can be contrasted with that of Christensen and Krogman (2012) who provide a conceptualization of social thresholds based on a sociological analysis of social resilience. They define thresholds as collectively recognized points that signify new experiences.…”

Section: Thresholds Adaptive Capacity and Resiliencementioning

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“…Parlee et al (2012) developed a similar approach to understand social-ecological thresholds in a community in northern Alberta where local expert interviews yielded perceived correlations and/or patterns of cause-effect between resource development activities and observed ecological change. These authors, like Christensen and Krogman (2012), suggest that local people need to first be able to reconstruct the history of ecological change to identify future tipping points that jeopardize a healthy resource base. In their paper, they describe thresholds as tipping points for both ecological and socioeconomic outcomes.…”

Section: Thresholds Adaptive Capacity and Resiliencementioning

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Cumulative Effects Assessment: Linking Social, Ecological, and Governance Dimensions

Weber¹,

Krogman²,

Antoniuk³

2012

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ABSTRACT. Setting social, economic, and ecological objectives is ultimately a process of social choice informed by science. In this special feature we provide a multidisciplinary framework for the use of cumulative effects assessment in land use planning. Forest ecosystems are facing considerable challenges driven by population growth and increasing demands for resources. In a suite of case studies that span the boreal forest of Western Canada to the interior Atlantic forest of Paraguay we show how transparent and defensible methods for scenario analysis can be applied in data-limited regions and how social dimensions of land use change can be incorporated in these methods, particularly in aboriginal communities that have lived in these ecosystems for generations. The case studies explore how scenario analysis can be used to evaluate various land use options and highlight specific challenges with identifying social and ecological responses, determining thresholds and targets for land use, and integrating local and traditional knowledge in land use planning. Given that land use planning is ultimately a value-laden and often politically charged process we also provide some perspective on various collective and expert-based processes for identifying cumulative impacts and thresholds. The need for good science to inform and be informed by culturally appropriate democratic processes calls for well-planned and multifaceted approaches both to achieve an informed understanding of both residents and governments of the interactive and additive changes caused by development, and to design action agendas to influence such change at the ecological and social level.

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Social Thresholds and their Translation into Social-ecological Management Practices

Cited by 59 publications

References 19 publications

Reconciling contradictory narratives of landscape change using the adaptive cycle: a case study from southeastern Australia

Reconciling contradictory narratives of landscape change using the adaptive cycle: a case study from southeastern Australia

Catching sea cucumber fever in coastal communities: Conceptualizing the impacts of shocks versus trends on social-ecological systems

Cumulative Effects Assessment: Linking Social, Ecological, and Governance Dimensions

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